E1M8: The Serpent Gate (The Wayfarer)

E1M8: The Serpent Gate is the eighth and final map of The Wayfarer. It was designed by Not Jabba and uses the music track "Gateway" by Varis Alpha.

Essentials
Walk straight forward through a Tome of Power to a Mystic Urn, which will lower the waterfalls ahead to reveal teleport glitter, then walk into that glitter to teleport to an arena. You will see the high disciple of D'Sparil in front of you, but it is protected by a blue shield that reflects projectiles so focus your attacks on the maulotaurs that surround you - they cannot be hurt by the disciple's projectiles and will not retaliate against it, so you will have to inflict all the damage yourself. When all the maulotaurs are dead, the disciple will disappear and two doors in the north wall will open.

Go through the doors to a second arena and collect the Lightbringer in the center, which will open three monster closets to the east containing a large number of regular disciples, as well as a closet to the west from which the high disciple will emerge - it is no longer invincible but will be much more aggressive and will strafe to avoid incoming attacks. Focus your attacks on the high disciple as much as possible until it dies and drops a red key, which you can use to activate the face switch at the north end of the arena and lower the bars behind it, then head north until you reach a red portal and step through it to finish the game.

Secrets

 * 1) Head north-west from the start and look through the east window. Shoot the switch and head east from the start to get a Lightbringer, sun runes and a nova rune. (sector 1034)
 * 2) In secret #1, go to the north window and shoot the switch to the west. This lowers the west wall in the starting area, which hides a Ring of Invulnerability. (sector 1033)
 * 3) When you teleport to the next area, then head to the east wall and lower it. Take the teleporter and get the Enchanted Shield. (sector 156)

Bugs
This level cannot be completed if the parameter is applied, as the red key can only be obtained by killing the high disciple.

Current records
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

The data was last verified in its entirety on January 6, 2022.

Things
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level: